Giovanni Battista Ruggieri (died 1640) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period. He was born in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
. In 1606 he became a pupil of
Domenichino
Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
Life
Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoem ...
. He was also called ''Battistino del Gessi'', because later he became a pupil of
Francesco Gessi
Francesco Gessi (20 January 1588 – 1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna.
Biography
Born to a noble family, his father noticed his attraction to the arts and placed him in the apprenticeship with Den ...
.
Ruggieri accompanied Gessi to
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
during the time of
Urban VIII. He was patronized by the
Giustiniani family and died in Rome in 1640. His brother
Ercole The male first name Ercole, Italian version of Hercules, can refer to:
People
* Ercole (name), list of people with the name
House of D'Este
*Ercole I d'Este (1431–1505), Duke of Ferrara
*Ercole II d'Este (1508–1559), Duke of Ferrara, Modena a ...
was also educated by Gessi.
References
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1640 deaths
Italian Baroque painters
Year of birth unknown
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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